It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
LIVYWar is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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